Twelve minutes of terror It took Port Talbot's inshore lifeboat crew just a few minutes to save a life at sea but the three found their training and courage tested to the limit On the morning of 10 January 2006 a call came through to...
Mrs Thatcher with the media and the crew of the Fowey lifeboat. The planned exercise with a helicopter ended with the lifeboat going to the aid of a 32ft yacht. (Photo Harry and Bi/lie Graeme). - View image in PDF
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Less than 20 minutes THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Berth ILB station saw a small sailing dinghy in the vicinity of some rocks about a quarter of a mile south west of the station; it was 1440 on Wednesday, July 21. While he watched, the...
The smacks John and ftrace, of Mjlford, and Mary, of j Cardigan, having, from the violence of the gale, then blowing from N.E., parted their cables and driven on to the Grood- wick Sands, the Life-boat Sir Edward Perrott was launched and...
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Captain Stephen Manson Kirkwall station honorary secretary, on 23 October.
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Sallash and District branch man RNLJ souvenir stands at various regal las and fetes during the summer, and are here seen at Saltash Regatta. Souvenirs and cards are also sold before Christmas at a local shop. With a small committee of six,... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 20TH. - REDCAR, YORK-SHIRE. At 9.30 P.M. the S.S. Cranby, ofMontreal, a 2,000-ton steamer, with a crew of twenty-one, bound laden with coal from Newcastle to London, ran ashore on West Scar Rocks. The weather was hazy, with a light...
Six survivors snatched from yacht in Force 9 gale and heavy seas A service to a 50ft yacht by St Peter Port's Arun class lifeboat Sir William Arnold in atrocious weather conditions resulted in media headlines throughout the country - and...
BOAT-THIEVES RESCUED W aimer, Kent.—At 10.10 in the morn- ing of the 1st of November, 1947, a wireless message from the South Good- win Light-vessel said that she had picked up a small boat with two men aboard, and wanted the life-boat to go...